MassTLC Major Event - Spring Meeting: The Global Impact of Mobility

BOSTON IS ALWAYS A MOBILE HUB, BUT ON MAY 13th, IT WILL BE THE GLOBAL HUB! Mobility has changed us all. The industry is not just shaping how we interact in our personal and professional lives, but is reshaping our world. In America, device and app envy have built a multi-billion dollar industry. Economically significant, but in the rest of the world, this innovation has transformed lives. ... [read more]

BOSTON IS ALWAYS A MOBILE HUB, BUT ON MAY 13th, IT WILL BE THE GLOBAL HUB! Mobility has changed us all. The industry is not just shaping how we interact in our personal and professional lives, but is reshaping our world. In America, device and app envy have built a multi-billion dollar industry. Economically significant, but in the rest of the world, this innovation has transformed lives. For the first time remote areas are receiving timely weather alerts, accessing education, transacting commerce and most importantly saving lives. Enterprise and individual consumers of all generations and regions have continued high expectations of what the industry can deliver and planning for the next generation of promised solutions. Staying current on development platforms, business models, infrastructure issues and those expectations is crucial to succeeding in continual technology evolutions. MassTLC’s Spring Meeting will gather world-wide industry experts for a half-day interactive discussion and work as an industry to face some of the sector’s most challenging questions and issues. Keynote Panel 8:00 - 9:00am State of the Global Wireless Industry While India has close to 720 million mobile subscribers, that’s just 60% of the population. But it’s the largest scale economy where broadband will first initially come over mobile networks before fixed networks. China is just beginning to aggressively roll out android phones…but a huge opportunity with their 60% of their 1.3 billion people connected. The dynamics these changes create are different than what we’ve seen in the western world. What opportunities will be created in “mobile first” economies and still remain in the rest of the world. Before tapping this global market you need to know the forces shaping its growth. This outstanding panel of global experts will provide statistics on the global wireless industry, what consumers are expecting and help you define your go-to market plan by discussing do we have what other countries want? Which partnerships will be crucial to tapping these markets? Must development be local? How do you sell in these markets? Panelists: Jiajin Gao, VP, China Unicom Americas Dr. Harmeet Singh, SVP, International Business Development, Tejas Networks Fireside Chat 9:00 - 9:30am Fireside Chat Kara Swisher is the co-executive editor and producer for All Things Digital, a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a thoughtful provocateur and commentator on the Internet and mobile ecosystems. Roles will be reversed for her during a lively interactive discussion with George Bell, serial investor and CEO, now CEO of Jumptap, who will be probing her for insights into the technology future. 9:45 - 10:45am Breakout 1: mCommerce